A few days ago we talked about whether an episotomy or a C-section is better. For many women, a caesarean section leaves a deep psychic mark in addition to a physical mark for life. They show us directly, showing the scars of their bodies and the pain of their hearts in this work that I present to you: "Cesarean, beyond the wound."
Is about book edited by OB STARE, which shows the work of the artist Ana Alvárez-Errecalde, carried out in collaboration with the Association El Parto es Nuestro. The work also becomes an exposition which we will inform you when you have the locations and dates confirmed.
The women of El Parto es Nuestro, an association that precisely has its origin in the meeting of some women who had suffered traumatic caesarean sections and possibly unnecessary, wanted to leave the physical and emotional injury of this intervention and contacted the artist Ana Alvarez-Errecalde to portray the scars of many women.
The work is not only very visibly delicate, but it knows how to convey the pain, anguish and acceptance of the indelible scar that the caesarean section leaves in thousands of mothers, and aims to raise awareness against obstetric violence.
Some of those scars still hurt me, I have heard these women narrate frightful births, mourn the loss and separation, delve into themselves and get reinforced to fight for the goals of El Parto es Nuestro, which remains a reference for both emotional support of women as in working with health authorities so that childbirth care in Spain is modernized and humanized.
The book and the exhibition "Cesarean, beyond the wound" It seems to me an indispensable work to be tender, enraged and empathize with the silent pain of thousands of women who suffered in this intervention, which, although it saves lives, should be carried out only in the necessary cases and always with the necessary information and sensitivity.
